Ronald Richman Salvatore Scognamiglio Mario Wüthrich
Ron Richman is the Founder of InsureAI, a startup focussing on building machine and deep learning tools to improve actuarial processes. Before this, he was Chief Actuary at Old Mutual Insure, South Africa’s second largest P&C group, where he was responsible for oversight of all P&C actuarial activities across Old Mutual. Ron is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA), holds practicing certificates in Short Term Insurance and Life Insurance from ASSA, a Masters of Philosophy in Actuarial Science, with distinction, from the University of Cape Town and has finished his PhD in applying deep learning in actuarial science at the University of the Witwatersrand. He chairs the Actuarial Society of South Africa’s Climate Change committee and the IAA’s ASTIN Board.
Salvatore Scognamiglio is Assistant Professor of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics at the University of Naples Parthenope. He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Naples Parthenope and was a visiting PhD at the Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) in London. His research has received financial support from actuarial organizations, including the International Actuarial Association, the Casualty Actuarial Society, and the Society of Actuaries.
Mario Wüthrich is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD (doctorate) in Mathematics from ETH Zurich (1999). From 2000 to 2005, he held an actuarial position at Winterthur Insurance, Switzerland. He is Actuary SAA (2004), served on the board of the Swiss Association of Actuaries (2006-2018), and he is Editor-in-Chief of the ASTIN Bulletin (since 2018). Moreover, he was teaching the International Summer School 2010 in Lausanne on stochastic claims reserving methods.
